Daily Readings for Saturday 8th February 2025

Daily Prayer - Saturday
- Give thanks to God that we have good news of salvation to tell that the repentant sinner might have everlasting life through Jesus Christ.        (John              3.16.)
- Pray the Lord would bless the Gospel outreach by the church in Westminster. Both on Saturday mornings and at services.
​- Pray the Lord would work in the contacts we have made both on Saturday mornings and at services; through personal conversations and         online           contacts.


Church Services
Sunday morning at 11:00am in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Doctrine Class - in church (after lunch) (and also available online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Bible Study and Prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Lunch Hour Service
Thursday afternoon between 1:00pm and 1:30pm in church (and also available online via Facebook)
Outreach/Witnessing
Saturday morning at Victoria Street (outside the big Boots store) for 10:30am (across the road from Town Hall - No. 64). Afterwards we go back to church for prayer.


Daily Reading Plan - First Year
Preface -Pharaoh's two dreams. His butler telleth him of Joseph. Pharoah sendeth for and consulteth him. He interpreteth the dreams, and giveth Pharaoh counsel. Joseph is advanced, and marrieth an Egyptian wife. His wise provision in the years of plenty. Ephraim and Manasseh are born, to him. The famine beginneth.
Genesis 41
Preface - Christ rideth into Jerusalem in triumph: curseth a barren fig tree: driveth the buyers and sellers out of the temple. The cursed fig tree is dried up: Christ exhorteth to faith in prayer, and to forgiveness of enemies: and silenceth the priests and others, who called in question his authority.
Mark 11



Daily Light - Morning
Henceforth I call you not servants;
for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth:
but I have called you friends.

The LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do? - It is given uto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven. - God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. - Even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory.

Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple. - The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant. - I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.

Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
Jn. 15.15; Ge. 18.17; Mt. 13.11; 1 Co. 2.10; 1 Co. 2.7
Ps. 65.4; Ps. 25.14; Jn. 17.8
Jn. 15.14



Daily Light - Evening
Thou shalt call thy walls Salvation,
and thy gates Praise.

The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the LAMB.

Ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; in whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: in whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit. - If so be ye have lasted that the Lord is gracious. To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion.
Isa. 60.18; Rev. 21.14
Eph. 2.19-22; 1 Pe. 2.3-5
​Ps. 65.1



​A Puritans Catechism
Q 8 - How doth God execute his decrees?
A - God executes his decrees in the works of creation and providence.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of the Church
Chapter 26
PARAGRAPH 11
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Although it be incumbent on the bishops or pastors of the churches, to be instant in preaching the word, by way of office, yet the work of preaching the word is not so peculiarly confined to them but that others also gifted and fitted by the Holy Spirit fo rit, and approved and called by the church, may and ought to perform it. (24)
(24)  Acts 11:19-21; 1 Pet. 4:10-11



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
More blessed to give
... it is more blessed to give than to receive.
Acts 20 v 35

These words from part of a most touching address which Paul made to the elders of Ephesus, when he parted with them for the last time. He took them all to witness that He was pure from the blood of all men: 'For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.' It is deeply interesting to notice that the duty of giving to the poor is marked by Him as one part of the counsel of God; so much so, that He makes it His last word to them: 'I have showed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how He said, it is more blessed to give than to receive.' These words, which he quotes from the mouth of the Saviour, are nowhere to be found in the Gospels. It is the only traditional saying of our Lord that has been preserved. It seems to have been one of his household words, a common-place, uttered by Him again and again: 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'